Words the Bible translates as alone
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- eḥadאֶחָדone: the cardinal number one, with the everyday senses that grow out of counting a single thing
- monosμόνοςalone or the only one: present or existing without others, or uniquely singled out to the exclusion of all else
+1 more meaning
- only, merely, just: a limit or restriction placed on a predicate or clause
- badבַּדby itself, apart from everything else: the idea of one thing standing separate, which gives the common phrase "alone"
+3 more meanings
- a carrying pole: one of the long wooden bars slid through rings to lift and carry the ark, altar, or table
- a branch or shoot: a wooden limb growing out from a vine or stem
- a limb or part of the body: one of the members that make up a living frame
- badadבָּדָדalone: the state of standing apart from everyone else, whether that means being kept safe on one's own or being left desolate
- badadבָּדַדto be alone: to stand apart from one's own kind, whether left solitary or broken away from the group
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